Ex Parte Tobias Watkins
Supreme Court of the United States
TOBIAS WATKINS, by Mr Brent, his counsel, presented a petition to the court, setting forth that' at the term of the circuit court of the district of Columbia, holden for the county of Washington, on .the first Monday of May 1829, certain presentments and indictments were found against him, upon three of which indictments trials were had and verdicts passed . against him, and judgments on such verdicts respectively were pronounced by the court, purporting to condemn him to…
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TOBIAS WATKINS, by Mr Brent, his counsel, presented a petition to the court, setting forth that' at the term of the circuit court of the district of Columbia, holden for the county of Washington, on .the first Monday of May 1829, certain presentments and indictments were found against him, upon three of which indictments trials were had and verdicts passed . against him, and judgments on such verdicts respectively were pronounced by the court, purporting to condemn him to certain terms of imprisonment, and also to the payment of certain pecuniary fines and costs, for the supposed offences…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This Is an application to the court to award a writ of habeas corpus to bring up the body of Tobias Watkins; a prisoner, asserted to be illegally confined in the common jail of Washington county in .the district of Columbia, under process of-execution-issued from the circuit court of the United States for the same district. A rule wag served upon the attorney-general, to show cause why the application should not be granted; and the- cause has been fully argued upon the return of that *571rule., it is admitted that all the facts existing in the case have been laid before the court, exactly as they…
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